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wonderfully ridiculous sentences

Passions  said about 2 years ago  or at  4:36PM on Thursday, April 1 2010 in stupidity

that is, sentences which make perfect, sober sense within their context, but, once removed, flap about like polka-dotted fish doing the Can Can. the spectacle is strange and enjoyable.

eg: ''The combination lock of life is a 'getting warmer, getting cooler, getting warmer' Hunt the Slipper device.''

you can post your own examples, or guess the derivation of other examples, or whatevs.

clearly i have too much time on my hands.


Hellzapoppin  said about 2 years ago:

Robert Carroll Coney.


toadphoney  said about 2 years ago:

German Micheal, who drinks resches, is barred.


toadphoney  said about 2 years ago:

If she fucks him, all the unicorns will die. Or something.


Passions  said about 2 years ago:

Take that, transubstantiationist, mariolatrous, incense-reeking bastard!


Passions  said about 1 year ago:

...preventing experimenters from getting at the pure, clean, stripped-down essence of rathood...


Passions  said about 1 year ago:

But can we condone a language which contains such an adverb?


Passions  said about 1 year ago:

This Millian inspired view of explanation would retain, as relevant to the explanation of o's being G, the F-ness and G-ness of other particulars, a, e, i, u, etc.


hillsonghoods  said about 1 year ago:

Hi Passions! Is that a semiotic analysis of Old McDonald's Farm?


Passions  said about 1 year ago:

haha! that would actually make more sense than the real answer.


basil seal  said about 1 year ago:

Passions  said about 1 year ago:

deviant hemoglobin


Passions  said about 1 year ago:

Isaac, though better equipped than Daniel or any other man alive to understand Relativity, shewed no interest in his pie - as if being in a state of movement with respect to the planet Earth rendered it somehow Not A Pie. But as far as Daniel was concerned, a pie in a moving frame of reference was no less a pie than one that was sitting still: position and velocity, to him, might be perfectly interesting physical properties, but they had no bearing on, no relationship to those properties that were essential to pie-ness. All that mattered to Daniel were relationships between his, Daniel's, physical state and that of the pie. If Daniel and Pie were close together both in position and velocity, then pie-eating became a practical, and tempting, possibility. If Pie were far asunder from Daniel or moving at a large relative velocity - eg, being hurled at his face - then its pie-ness was somehow impaired, at least from the Daniel frame of reference.


anonymous  said about 1 year ago:

hmm...


anonymous  said about 1 year ago:

Is that from a novel, i think i've read that before.


Godzilla  said about 1 year ago:

I'd guess it's from Neal Stephenson


Morris Iemma  said about 1 year ago:

Go-di-di-go-go-di-go Di-go-go-di-go Diim! Diim! Diim!

Le dada faire dodo avec un verre des lolos en menotte et dit dans son sommeil, 'miam-mian!'


Passions  said about 1 year ago:

well spotted, folks! it's from Neal Stephenson's 'The System Of The World'. a particularly glorious, wonderfully ridiculous passage.

as to Morris Iemma's, je n'ai aucune idée.


Morris Iemma  said about 1 year ago:

That was one of mine. I'm an absurdist playwrite in my spare time.

The first one was from Chinny Achebe, though. Ol' chinface the chebe.


Passions  said about 9 months ago:

At any instant, somewhere in the multiverse, there are a few universes in which one of the photons is currently striking the retina of the frog in the universe. And that frog jumps.


JunkiePhil  said about 9 months ago:

Final Fight 3


Passions  said about 9 months ago:

But mathematicians are rather untypical physical objects.


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